Befriend Your True Self + Walk in Freedom, Health and Joy
Inside: Episode four of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. Make peace with messiness to make space for joy. Life ‘shouldn’t’ be neat and tidy. If your life feels challenging, you’re not doing it wrong. It’s the belief that you ‘should’ always know what you’re doing, and that your life ‘should’ always feel easy and …
Inside: Episode three of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. Do you know your core values and do you walk them out with intention? Do you have a clear vision that lights your path? At the end of your days, how will you know you’ve lived well? Palliative nurse Bronnie Ware recorded her patient’s end …
Inside: You cannot shame yourself into wholeness. Instead, practice self-compassion like your life depends upon it. It does. Episode two of The ALIP Podcast: Rebranding Middle Age. You cannot shame or bully yourself into wholeness. My inner critic was vicious. It bullied me, held me back, pointed out all my flaws 24/7, and told me …
Inside: Use these free worksheets to map out your year or goals in a seasonal way to reignite your creativity and build a brave and beautiful life. I’ve been life visioning for decades and the impact has been powerfully life-giving and has spilled over into every area of my life and work. You can learn …
Inside: Many midlife women wonder if boundaries are selfish. Boundaries are actually compassionate and in this post I share why. In conversations with midlife women, a common question that arises is “are boundaries selfish?” We’ve been taught that to be a good mom, a loving partner, or a compassionate person that we should be ‘self-less’. …
Inside: We need to declutter our lives frequently. This includes decluttering our relationships. The Circle of Impact exercise will help you practice. If you’re into simple living, minimalism or decluttering, you’ve probably heard tips around how futile it is organize stuff that you don’t even want/like/need. Professional Declutterer, Julianna Wilkes of The Simplicity Habit writes …
Inside: You may feel weary and a little beat up by life but you can map a new joyful vision for the next season of your life. Just being human can be hard work at times! But layer on grief, trauma, messy and vulnerable life transitions, a lifetime of pouring out for others while neglecting …
Inside: It’s never too late – whatever your experience or season of life, you can build a new pattern and learn how to overcome fear in life. Fear is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s a common human emotion designed to keep us safe. Our nervous system constantly scans our internal and external environment looking …
Inside: Choosing simplicity in life requires mindful intention — it definitely won’t happen on it’s own in this ‘more and faster is better’ culture. A question I ask myself regularly is ‘how can I let this be simpler or easier?’ I’m wired for slow and simple and also it doesn’t take much to complicate my …
Inside: A messy and beautiful life flourishes as we learn to change our thinking. As we release binaries and all or nothing thinking and make peace with paradox. I remember a past season of life when I felt worried about the state of my marriage (more honestly I felt worried about all the things). My …
Inside: Parenting is hard on the ego and challenges us to confront our own wounding. What helps, regardless of their age, is to become a student of your children. This post contains referral links. Our children arrive a unique bundle of personality and passion, hardwired for strength and struggle. Parenting is hard on the ego, …
Inside: What you need to know about stress: This is part one in a three-part series to help you feel more empowered as you navigate stressful life experiences. Would you agree that right now life feels more hectic and stressful than ever? That there are fewer times when you feel amazing in-the-moment clarity and confidence …
